This article discusses the process of editing The Australian Book of the Road. It uses William Hays An Australian Rip Van Winkle as an exemplary Australian road text. With its diffuse sense of hauntedness, multiple time-warps, and eerie appropriation of northern hemisphere literary texts, Hays story offers a suggestive frame for reflecting on our relationship with the road in Australia and the way it is figured in our writing; to consider the road not only as a material artefact represented by our road texts but a set of cultural traditions and tropes. Its layered hauntings offer paths to unpacking of the odd sense of unease that permeates so many of these road stories. Using road writing (my own term) as a strategic generic category through which disparate works can be interpreted, this paper will consider them as instances of spatial history, following Paul Carter, opposed to more triumphalist literary traditions. It will also, finally, consider the Australian road within a global context; in particular, the strategic ways in which these stories play with strategies of adaptation.

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Association for the Study of Australian Literature

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Journal of the Association for the study of Australian ...

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'The Poetry of the Earth is Never Dead': Australia's Road Writing

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Journal Article

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Special Is

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2009

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1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing

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1904 Performing Arts And Creative Writing

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2005 Literary Studies

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2103 Historical Studies

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1

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/University of Technology Sydney

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/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program

This article discusses the process of editing The Australian Book of the Road. It uses William Hays An Australian Rip Van Winkle as an exemplary Australian road text. With its diffuse sense of hauntedness, multiple time-warps, and eerie appropriation of northern hemisphere literary texts, Hays story offers a suggestive frame for reflecting on our relationship with the road in Australia and the way it is figured in our writing; to consider the road not only as a material artefact represented by our road texts but a set of cultural traditions and tropes. Its layered hauntings offer paths to unpacking of the odd sense of unease that permeates so many of these road stories. Using road writing (my own term) as a strategic generic category through which disparate works can be interpreted, this paper will consider them as instances of spatial history, following Paul Carter, opposed to more triumphalist literary traditions. It will also, finally, consider the Australian road within a global context; in particular, the strategic ways in which these stories play with strategies of adaptation.

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